The Book List: 2010

2010 Book List (by rating) – **BLL** indicates a Booker Long List selection

All books clickable to commentary:

1. Room ~ Emma Donoghue ~ ♦♦♦♦♦ **BLL** Short Listed
2. Sunset Park  ~ Paul Auster ~ ♦♦♦♦♦
3. Woman’s World ~ Graham Rawle ~ ♦♦♦♦½
4. In A Strange Room ~ Damon Galgut ~ ♦♦♦♦½ **BLL** Short Listed
5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet ~ David Mitchell ~ ♦♦♦♦½ **BLL**
6. In Free Fall ~ Juli Zeh ~ ♦♦♦♦½
7. Lean On Pete ~ Willy Vlautin ~ ♦♦♦♦½
8. Solar ~ Ian McEwan ~ ♦♦♦♦
9. Galapagos ~ Kurt Vonnegut ~ ♦♦♦♦
10. Parrot & Olivier in America ~ Peter Carey ~ ♦♦♦♦**BLL** Short Listed
    
11. Point Omega ~ Don DeLillo ~ ♦♦♦♦
12. Peace ~ Richard Bausch ~ ♦♦♦♦
13. Slammerkin ~ Emma Donoghue ~ ♦♦♦♦
14. Sheepshagger ~ Niall Griffiths ~ ♦♦♦♦
15. Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson ~ ♦♦♦♦
16. Samuel Johnson is Indignant  ~ Lydia Davis ~ ♦♦♦♦
17. The Pyramid ~ Ismail Kadare ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (Albania)
18. The Immortals ~ Amit Chaudhuri ~ ♦♦♦♦
19. The Matter of Desire ~ Edmundo Paz Soldan ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (BoliviaCuba)
20. Explosion in a Cathedral ~ Alejo Carpentier ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (Cuba)
21. A Handful Of Dust ~ Evelyn Waugh ~ ♦♦♦♦
22. The Long Song ~ Andrea Levy ~ ♦♦♦♦**BLL** Short Listed
23. Noir ~ Robert Coover ~ ♦♦♦♦
24. I Curse The River of Time ~ Per Petterson ~ ♦♦♦♦
25. The Lost Books Of The Odyssey ~ Zachary Mason ~ ♦♦♦♦
26. A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True ~ Brigid Pasulka ~ ♦♦♦♦
27. All That Follows ~ Jim Crace ~ ♦♦♦♦
28. February ~ Lisa Moore ~ ♦♦♦♦ **BLL**
29. Broken Glass Park ~ Alina Bronsky ~ ♦♦♦♦
30. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter ~ Tom Franklin ~ ♦♦♦♦
31. The Curse of the Wendigo ~ Rick Yancey ~ ♦♦♦♦
32. Kings of the Earth ~ Jon Clinch ~ ♦♦♦♦
33. The Elementary Particles ~ Michel Houellebecq ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (France)
34. Skippy Dies ~ Paul Murray ~ ♦♦♦♦ **BLL**
35. The Slap ~ Christos Tsiolkas ~ ♦♦♦♦**BLL**
36. The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy ~ Anthony Burgess ~ ♦♦♦♦
37. Day Out of Days ~ Sam Shepard ~ ♦♦♦½
38. Ordinary Thunderstorms ~ William Boyd ~ ♦♦♦½
39. Dirt Music ~ Tim Winton ~ ♦♦♦½
40. The Passage ~ Justin Cronin ~ ♦♦♦½
41. The Museum of Innocence ~ Orhan Pamuk ~ ♦♦♦½
42. Purge ~ Sofi Oksanen ~ ♦♦♦½ a Reading Around the World selection (Estonia)
43. The Finkler Question ~ Howard Jacobsen ~ ♦♦♦½ **BLL** Short Listed
44. Ransom ~ David Malouf ~ ♦♦♦½
45. The Infinities ~ John Banville ~ ♦♦♦½
46. Masters of Atlantis ~ Charles Portis ~ ♦♦♦½
47. Mr. Peanut ~ Adam Ross ~ ♦♦♦½
48. Seven Gothic Tales ~ Isak Dinesen ~ ♦♦♦½ a Reading Around the World selection (Denmark)
49. Even The Dogs ~ Jon McGregor ~ ♦♦♦½
50. The Changeling ~ Kenzaburo Oe ~ ♦♦♦
51. The Betrayal ~ Helen Dunmore ~ ♦♦♦ **BLL**
52. Morningside Heights ~ Cheryl Mendelson ~ ♦♦♦
53. C ~ Tom McCarthy ~ ♦♦♦ ~ **BLL** Short Listed
54. Just Kids ~ Patti Smith ~ ♦♦♦
55. Please: Fiction Inspired by The Smiths  ~ Ed. Peter Wild ~ ♦♦♦
56. Oblomov  ~ Ivan Goncharov ~ ♦♦♦
57. Garden, Ashes ~ Danilo Kis ~ ♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (Serbia/Montenegro)
58. Redemption ~ George Ovitt ~ ♦♦♦
59. Matterhorn ~ Karl Marlantes ~ ♦♦♦
60. About A Mountain ~ John D’Agata ~ ♦♦♦
61. Boston Noir ~ Dennis Lehane (Ed) ~ ♦♦♦
62. The Stars In The Bright Sky ~ Alan Warner ~ ♦♦½**BLL**
63. Tranquility ~ Attila Bartis ~ ♦♦½ a Reading Around the World selection (Hungary)
64. Bronx Noir ~ E.J. Rozan (Ed.) ~ ♦♦½
65. Bordeaux ~ Paul Torday ~ ♦♦
66. Psycho Too ~ Will Self (words), Ralph Steadman (pictures) ~ ♦♦